Sun

Hebrew, Elohim (God); Greek, helios (the sun);
Breton, heol; Latin, sol; German, sonne; Anglo-Saxon, sunne. As a deity, called Adonis by the
Phoenicians, and Apollo by the Greeks and Romans.

Sun.

Harris, in his Hermes, asserts that all nations ascribe to
the sun a masculine and the moon a feminine gender. For confutation see Moon.

City of the Sun.

Rhodes was so called because the sun was its tutelar deity. The
Colossos of Rhodes was consecrated to the sun. On or Heliopolis, Egypt.

Sun

(The), called in Celtic mythology Sunna (fem.),
lives in constant dread of being devoured by the wolf Fenris. It is
this contest with the wolf to which eclipses are due. According to this
mythology, the sun has a beautiful daughter who will one day reign in
place of her mother, and the world will be wholly renovated.

said Pompey; meaning that more persons pay honour to ascendant than
to fallen greatness. The allusion is, of course, to the Persian
fire-worshippers.

Heaven cannot support two suns, nor earth two masters.

So said Alexander the Great when Darius (before the battle of
Arbela) sent to offer terms of peace. Beautifully imitated by
Shakespeare:

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.

1 Henry IV., v. 4.

Here lies a she-sun, and a he moon there

(Donne). Epithalamium on the marriage of Lady Elizabeth, daughter
of James I., with Frederick, elector palatine. It was through this
unfortunate princess, called “Queen of Bohemia” and “Queen of Hearts,” that the family of Brunswick succeeded to the British throne. Some say
that Lord Craven married (secretly) the “fair widow.”